It’s been an awful long time, nearly 3 months since I wrote anything on my blog. I can’t believe how quickly time has flown by. Since that PB at the BUPALondon 10km I’ve been out for some runs and clocked approximately 87 miles of running, plus 16 miles of walking and I’ve started doing something I’ve always wanted to try yoga and I’ve managed 3 sessions so far. I’ve missed the last two but I’m hoping to get back on track on Thursday.

Today I should have been participating in the Capital Runner’s 10km Run in Richmond. Normally getting to Richmond is no problem but pretty much all the transport links from where I live in London are down or are have part closure on them so it would have taken 2 hours+ just to get there. Instead of going I decided to do a 6+ mile run today. I’m really looking forward to my next scheduled race which is the Run to the Beat powered by Nike+ on 8th September in Greenwich. I only hope there are no transport issues on that date but it should be a little easier getting to that one, fingers crossed.

I’m back home after my run today and can’t wait for the rest of the family to wake up so we can head out and enjoy the sunshine possibly in Greenwich or at Hyde Park, who knows?

All I know life is good and things have been going pretty well. Recently on the job front, I’ve been back doing some medical secretarial work but a couple of weeks ago I did that job during the day and in the evenings I was working for a friend at the gym in the evenings as a fitness instructor. It was tiring but it was only for three days.

My daughter spent some time (5 days and 4 nights) with her grandparents in Lancing, West Sussex and I joined her for (4 nights and 5 days). I quite like the symmetry in that! I know strange, huh? Anyway, it was lovely just to get away and we were both very thankful for their help as it was a busy work week for us both. Thank you nana and popsy. Now I’m sure if we could have shipped her to nanny in Barbados Ella would have loved that just as much 🙂

It’s the morning after the night before and my throat is sore and I don’t know that I will ever, ever witness anything like that again!

GB had one of the best Olympic days in their history in over 100 years with 6 golds and 1 silver. I’m not sure we didn’t pick up a bronze too! I met up with one of my good friends Anne at Marble Arch (which for those of you who don’t know is a short walk from Hyde Park). After getting a bite to eat we wandered down to the park and entered the BT London Live festival. Basically, there are a bunch of big screens up in the park showing the Olympics. The atmosphere was great and there was lots of food, drink and sun for everyone 🙂

There were lots of Union Flags waving and being worn however there were flags of all nations and people of all nations mingling and soaking up the atmosphere. As the day wore on you could feel the tension mounting as we were all waiting to hopefully see 3 golds claimed for team GB in the athletics and boy we were not disappointed. It was fabulous!!! I could not imagine how it must have felt in the Olympic Stadium itself (my husband was lucky enough to be there) but the noise in Hyde Park was absolutely amazing and strangers were hugging each other and jumping around like kids!

I just can’t get over it!!! As someone said to me last night at the park, ‘this small country has punched way above it’s weight’ and we are all reaping the rewards, go GB!!!!!

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